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  1. adjudicate      to determine judicially                                                                             The court @d the question of the property lines.            
  2. assuage         to make less harsh or severe; to satisfy                                                            The man's ego was @d by his wife's kind words.              
  3. bicker          to dispute                                                                                          The feuding neighbors constantly @d over minor matters.     
  4. captivate       to fascinate; to charm                                                                              The famous trial @d the attention of the whole nation.      
  5. collate         to compare critically; to arrange sheets in a book                                                  The secretary @d the sheets of the report.                  
  6. corrode         to eat away or destroy gradually                                                                    The Bible says to lay up treasures that rust cannot @.      
  7. demarcate       to mark the limits of; to separate                                                                  The fence @d the property lines between the farms.          
  8. dishevel        to muss up; to disorder, especially clothing or   hair                                              The wind @d the woman's elaborate hairdo.                   
  9. emanate         to flow forth from a source; issue                                                                  Many rights @ from the few words of the Constitution.       
  10. exculpate       to free from blame or prove innocent                                                                The evidence of innocence @d the defendant.                 
  11. fledge          to furnish with feathers; to grow feathers                                                          The little birds @d as they stayed in the nest.             
  12. gyrate          to rotate or revolve around a fixed axis; to turn in a spiral motion                                The child's top @ around the kitchen.                       
  13. impoverish      to cause to become poverty stricken; to take the  wealth of                                         The man's gambling problem @d his family.                   
  14. intimate        to hint; to make known subtly; to imply                                                             The government minister @d that his country would back down.
  15. lucubrate       to study laboriously; to write in a learned way                                                     The seminary student @d the ancient text.                   
  16. mitigate        to make less harsh; to lessen the severity of; to mollify                                           The tax rebate @d the effect of the higher tax rates.       
  17. ostracize       to exclude from a particular group; banish                                                          The newcomer was @d from the town meetings.                 
  18. remonstrate     to say or plead in protest; to object                                                               No matter how the father @d, the child would not give in.   
  19. traduce         to defame; to slander                                                                               The false charges @d the man's good name.                   
  20. yammer          to complain peevishly; to whimper; to howl                                                          The players @d constantly about the unfair calls.           
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